Amulsar

The Amulsar mine is situated near Jermuk, a resort town two hours southeast from the capital made famous for its natural beauty, hot springs and health spas. Locals have long contended that the gold mine, which has already

RA Nature Protection Ministry is trying to put the court proceedings on Amulsar project into a deadlock: the court claim has been filed by Jermuk town and Gndevaz Village residents to RA Administrative Court, as

Direct democracy won another victory in Armenia. On December 18, 2018 Jermuk Community Council adopted a decision to approve the collective petition of its community members on “Declaring Jermuk an ecological economic area and banning metal mining in the community”.

Lydian Company, the implementer of Amulsar gold project, has filed two court claims to RA Administrative Court against Environmental and Mining Inspection Body appealing the two decisions the Inspection had reached. The court

EcoLur is presenting Harutyun Movsisyan's opinion on Amulsar Project, Associate Professor at Faculty of Geography and Geology, Chair of Prospecting and Exploration of Mineral Deposits, Expert at YSU Sustainable Development Center

The offshore mining pirates have sues me as if I have defamed them. They are demanding from the court to obligate me to deny this information, to pay their court fees and to confiscate 1 million AMD in favor of

Four companies operating metallic mines have submitted their quarterly reports on the findings of the environmental monitoring: these are companies 'Lydian Armenia', 'Teghout', 'Litchqvaz', 'Kapane Ore-Dressing Combine' CJSCs. Their reports are published

On 2 December, Amulsar protectors handed to Acting PM Nikol Pashinyan a petition signed by around 3000 Jermuk community residents on making Jermuk an economic and environmental area and banning metallic

The peaceful press conference given by Acting Nature Protection Minister Erik Grigoryan was followed by the scandalous entrance of the environmentalists into the building of the ministry. It turned out that 3 representatives

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